商品簡介
Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind onany planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.
Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the filmBlade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, includingWe Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion pictureTotal Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.
作者簡介
More than 30 years after his untimely death at age 53, Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982) remains one of the most celebrated authors of the last century and a looming and illuminating presence in this one. He was the winner of both the prestigious Hugo Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which honor excellence in science fiction. Inducted in 2007 into the Library of America, which publishes a three-volume collection of his novels, Dick has received unprecedented recognition for his contributions to modern literature, specifically in the area of science fiction. His 45 novels and over 210 short stories have been adapted into numerous films, including the blockbustersMinority Report, Total Recall, and Blade Runner, as well asImpostor, Paycheck, Scanner Darkly, Next, and The Adjustment Bureau.
